According to an article in The Living Church, presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold identified by name six Episcopalians for having detrimentally influenced the course of the primates’ recent meeting in Northern Ireland. He responded in remarks to the House of Bishops at their March 11-17 spring retreat at Camp Allen in Navasota, Texas. They are:
  1. The Rt. Rev. Robert Duncan, Bishop of Pittsburgh

  2. The Rev. Canon Bill Atwood, general secretary of the Ekklesia Society

  3. The Rev. Canon Martyn Minns, rector of Truro Parish, Fairfax, Va.

  4. The Rev. Canon David Anderson, president of the American Anglican Council

  5. The Rev. Canon Kendall Harmon, canon theologian of the Diocese of South Carolina

  6. Diane Knippers, president of the Institute for Religion and Democracy

All were singled out for opprobrium by the Presiding Bishop for their behind-the-scenes roles at Dromantine, the site of the Primates' meeting in Northern Ireland.

The entire article can be found at: http://www.livingchurch.org/publishertlc/viewarticle.asp?ID=882


George Conger's wrote a facinating two part article on the Primates Meeting for The Church of England Newspaper which lends support to Bishop Griswold's remarks.

He tells us that:

Throughout the week conservative activists would take primates off-campus from the center to dine and strategise.

Conservative American and British activists worked with the clear intention of influencing the Primates' deliberations. There seems to have been not even a minimal effort to hide the fact that the efforts of the "global south" primates were managed (advised) by a sizable body of Conservative American and British activists not of their number.

It is easy to understand why, in a meeting that was supposed to have been closed, Bishop Griswold became perturbed after witnessing the departure of a number of global south primates with their American supporters to dine off-campus. Those same Primates refused to participate in a common Eucharist.